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Lend your home.
Borrow someone else’s.

While you’re away, another family stays in your empty home and you collect nights. Spend those nights in a family’s empty home elsewhere — Morocco, Saudi Arabia, or here in England.

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The first 30 homes join free for their first year. We're gathering them now.

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Nobody home — you have the place to yourself
The whole idea, in four steps

Nobody pays rent. Nights do the work.

Tap through and watch Ahmed and Fatima's balances move.

How the nights move1 of 4

Ahmed

Terrace, Manchester

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Fatima

Flat, Tangier

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Lend, and you collect

One night lent is one night collected. A two-bed terrace counts exactly the same as a villa — trusting someone with your home is the same act either way.

Borrow, and you spend

Spend nights on any home in the network. You never have to lend to the same family you borrow from — that’s why nights exist instead of straight swaps.

Nights come from lending

Nights are collected by lending your home, and spent staying in someone else’s. They are never bought and they aren’t money — they only ever move between members.

The homes

Real homes, from real families.

Owners write their own listing and choose what to show. Real photographs of the home itself are shared privately, once you’ve been in touch.

These six are examples, showing how a listing looks and how the traffic light works. Real homes are being written now and every one goes live together on 1 November — so the first members see a network, not an empty page. Listing your home is free, and stays free for your first year.

Tap the heart to save a home. We’ll tell you when a saved home turns green.

Green, amber, red

Set your lights. Change them anytime.

You shouldn’t have to commit to dates before you’ve sorted your own trip. Every month on your listing gets a colour — and amber does the heavy lifting.

Green

Free to lend that month. Ask and I’ll almost certainly say yes.

Amber

Probably free, but I'm still sorting my own plans. Ask me and I'll tell you straight.

Red

Not this month. We're home, or the house isn't available.

Try it — tap a month to change its lightAmber means maybe

Nothing here commits you. Even a green month only becomes a booking once you accept a request — and you always have 48 hours to say no.

The wanted board

Say where you want to go. Let owners come to you.

You don’t have to wait and hope. Post what you need, and members with the right home and the right dates can offer it.

Where we're starting

Three countries, chosen for a reason.

Ten real homes in three countries beats one home in twenty. Each of these has families on both sides of the swap.

England

Families away for the summer, and relatives arriving for weddings, hospital stays and university.

London · Manchester · Birmingham

Morocco

Deep family ties across Europe, and homes that sit empty for much of the year.

Tangier · Tétouan · Marrakech

Saudi Arabia

A tourist visa allows six months a year, but rent is paid twelve months upfront. Half the year the home sits paid for and empty.

Madinah · Riyadh · Jeddah · Makkah

Somewhere else in mind?

Türkiye, Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bosnia — tell us where you’d go and where your home is. We open the countries people ask for.

Why we built it this way

An old idea, borrowed.

When families arrived in Madinah with nothing, the people already living there opened their homes. Each household took in a family. Not as charity — as neighbours.

Sa'd offered to divide everything he owned with Abd al-Rahman. Abd al-Rahman thanked him, declined, and asked instead to be shown the way to the marketplace.

Narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari

Trust & safety

How we check who's coming.

You're being asked to trust strangers with your home. That only works if the checking is real and you can see exactly what it involves.

Email and phone confirmedBoth verified before anything else happens. No anonymous accounts.
Photo ID checkedWe confirm the document matches, and who else is travelling.
Proof you're connected to the homeA utility bill, tenancy agreement or title document in your name at that address.
We check the listing before it goes upPhotographs, and a few questions about the home. A listing that doesn't match the home doesn't go up.
You see who's coming before you agreeYou have 48 hours to accept or decline, and you never have to give a reason.
Nobody has stayed anywhere yet. We have no reviews, because we have had no stays. When we do, they'll go on this page whether they're good or bad. Until then, the checks above and the people behind this are all we can offer you — and we'd rather say so plainly.
If something goes wrong

What actually happens.

Most stays are uneventful. These are the ones that aren't, and what we do about them.

Something's broken when you arriveTell us within 24 hours with photographs. Urgent problems — water, power, heat, locks — are dealt with the same day. Everything else within 72 hours.
The home isn't as describedSend us photographs. If it's materially different from the listing, we move you or return your nights in full, and the listing comes down until it's corrected.
A stay is cancelled on youYour nights go straight back into your balance and we help you find another home. If it's last minute and we can't, we'll say so honestly rather than leave you waiting.
Something gets damagedBoth families complete a condition record before and on arrival, so it's clear what was already there. Genuine damage is settled from the deposit. Fair wear and tear is never treated as damage.
You need somebody at 2amOne phone number, answered by a person, in English. In the early months that person is the founder.
You change your mindCancel a confirmed stay with 30 days' notice and your nights return in full.
Before any keys change hands

Nothing is agreed in a WhatsApp message.

Every swap follows the same six steps, on the platform, in writing. That protects both families equally — and it means if anything goes wrong there’s a record of what was agreed.

You message each other hereComingAll conversation happens on the platform, not on personal numbers. It keeps your phone number private and it means we can see what was agreed if there’s ever a disagreement.
You agree the details in writingExact dates, how many people, what’s included, house rules, who to call locally. Both families confirm before anything is booked.
An agreement is drawn up and signedA written agreement between both families, sent by us, signed by both before any keys move. Not a handshake, not a chat message.
Both sides record the conditionThe owner records the home as they leave it. The family arriving records what they find, within 24 hours. Two independent records means nobody gets blamed for damage that was already there.
The stay happensOne number to call if something goes wrong, answered by a person.
You review each otherComingBoth families leave a review afterwards. Both are published at the same time, so neither can wait to see what the other wrote first.
Reviews

Both families review each other.

After every stay, the family who lent the home and the family who stayed in it each leave a review. Both appear at the same moment, so nobody can hold theirs back to see what the other said first.

No reviews yet

Nobody has stayed anywhere. When they have, the reviews go here — good and bad.

We won’t write our own

Every review will come from a verified member after a completed stay. Never from us.

Bad ones stay up

We won’t remove a review for being unflattering. Only for being abusive or untrue.

We’re still building this. The first homes are joining now, and some of how it works — how nights begin, what it costs later — is being settled with the founding members rather than decided at them. If something doesn’t make sense, or you’d do it differently, tell us. That’s rather the point of going first.
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وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا

"And We made you into nations and tribes, that you may know one another."

Surah Al-Hujurat · 49:13